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I want to schedule the running of a workflow. This has to be an external task calling a perl script. Can I use 'Sleep' for this? Is there any other better option?
Thanks.

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Migrateduser

you can use dummy task with timeout that transitions to the externaltask.

kaalraa

I want to schedule the running of a workflow. This has to be an external task calling a perl script. Can I use 'Sleep' for this? Is there any other better option?
Thanks.

Hi,

Could you please elaborate as when and in what conditions .. you want to schedule the running of the workflow.

Is it during the initiation of the job OR within the running workflow a task has to be scheduled?

homesick123

Hi,

Could you please elaborate as when and in what conditions .. you want to schedule the running of the workflow.

Is it during the initiation of the job OR within the running workflow a task has to be scheduled?

Its something similar to scheduling deployments in Open Deploy.Here I want to schedule the workflow to run on a twice-in-a-day basis.That is once in every 12 hrs.
The workflow has only one external task.

homesick123

Hi,

Could you please elaborate as when and in what conditions .. you want to schedule the running of the workflow.

Is it during the initiation of the job OR within the running workflow a task has to be scheduled?

The workflow has only one external task.

kaalraa

The workflow has only one external task.

You have to extend your workflow a bit with atleast 2 more tasks; a dummy and an external task.

Dummy task would wait till the execution time and the new external task always set the new scheduled time for dummy task.

For example: Task A is your own working external task, Task X is the dummy task and Task Z is the new external task which when activated adds 12 hours to current time and set timeout fot task X.

This workflow once would be initiated manually and would never end, until and unless explicitly said to be ended within the new external task Z.

Adam Stoller

Its something similar to scheduling deployments in Open Deploy.Here I want to schedule the workflow to run on a twice-in-a-day basis.That is once in every 12 hrs.
The workflow has only one external task.

A workflow implies that there is a process, and that process (usually) involves some form of review and potentially other operations along the way.

A workfow that consists of only an externaltask script - shouldn't really be a workflow - it should just be a script.

If you're on Unix you can use cron (man crontab for details). If you're on Windows you can use the Window's Scheduler / WinAT. In either case - you're basically asking for a given script to be run periodically during the day (every day, or as scheduled).